The Sun. — London, England, 1809-08-26 00:00:00

MAILS. ' - A.R.O.tvito —1 CottenbUrgli, Dublin, I Waterford. Dirt —2, Qottertbur;ll, t Ma.ta, Waterford. PRICE OF &TOCKS THIS DAY ♦T TWELVE O'CLOCK. - - 68 011;101U;11 - T SUN. .. a pr? 110Y,10 , !1 otll6 roCaßt AUDIIAT ? LOND SATURDAY, AUGUgT 1809. We have this day made-some interesting ExtraEl from the foreign Papers which arrived yesterday. pey leave us still - in the dark with respea to the issue of the Negotiation ; but the general tendency of Op language is of a warlike nature. The Aus trian Pflicial Account of the Battle of Wagraru .has been published in the German Papers ; but in those more immediately under the Influence of France, wLtie of the most important passages have been otil i t t ed. The accounts from Holland state, t the most extensive and formidable weparations are there to oppose our invasion. A Qottenb.argll Mail arrived this morning, but its contents are of ver)little interest. We are unable' to communicate to our Readers any authentic intelligence respeaing our Army in Spain. Letters from Lisbcm by the last Packet state, that a Vessel sailed on the 12th with Dis patches from Sir ARTHUR WELT.EsLpy: but the Vessel has not yet arrived. We thitik it highly pro bable that Sir ARTHUR has retreated upon Elvas. . Yesterday morning his MAJESTY, the Princess AUGUSTA, and the Duke of CAMBRIDGB, accompa nied by Lady THYNNE, Generals CARTWRIGHT and FITZROY, Colonels TAYLOR and DESBROW, rode in Windsor Park till twelve o'clock, and then returned .to the Palace. The Princess SOPHIA still continues indisposed, and tillable to accompany his MAJESTY in his usual ride. t . . . . The Pfinpess AMELIA and MARY, with their at tendants, leave Wla dsor on Monday, and proceed on their excursion' to Weymouth: To-morrow - his Royal Highness the Duke of CcA IIENCE will give a grand dinner to their Highnesses the' Prince of WALES, the. Dukes of YORK, KENT, CUMBERLAND,. SUSSEX, and CAMBRIDGE; hisJiigh iless the Duke of BRUNSWICK OELS, and' a large 'party of Noblemen and Gentlemen, at his house,at Bushy Park. When the last dispatches quitted the Tagus, there were no vessels in that liver but the Wild Boar brig, four transports, and a merchantman. The Admiral's flag was flying in one of the transports. ExTRAcT FROM A PRIVATE' LETTER. 1 " LISBON, AUG. 12.---VENEGAS was to enter Ma- tilrid; the loyaltnbani - ants of which ptace, it is under stood from credible intelligence, evinced a disposi tion to rise on the enemy on the approach of our troops ;; and WELLESLEY and CUESTA were to pur sue their march together, after the 'testable victory of Talavera, when all the hostile troops which were in Castile, and which were estimated at 30,000 men (though ill-equipped), united and passed thrOugh the Puerto de Banos, above Placentia,. threatening the rear our allies, who for want of provisions could not direCtly pursue the enemy routed ,at Talavera. " The enemy entered Castile in spite of the re sistance of the Portuguese .army, which, under BE IIES1:0ED, had . been slowly forming at Alrneida. For this reason both Spaniards and English have retteat , ed. VENEGAS- has probably been obliged to suspend his movements towards Madrid. BEREsFORI;, aware that the moven-tents of the French .army might en -danger WELLEiLLY, has entered Spain, and Written on the 7th from Feente Guinaldo, tour leagues from Cuidad Rodrigo, and, with a part of his troops s.s, , hich were united there, is following the enemy by way of Perales, who has descended to Placentia. " If, as it is hoped, the 8000 English who were in this.4ingdorn, when the late events toot effect their reSpeaiye junctions, 3000 . i)f whom have trorched to join the army of WELLESLEy, and 5000 to join the Portuiolese, an important, diversion will be ctietted ; for the lour brigades of Marshal BERES :ORD, WiliCtl,bate :Mt Set out, atnount to .1.,000 men.'" r.'htf2Ct of a Letter from an °Meer of the 14th Light Dm. goons, dated Talavera, Augtist I am -alive and well, after a tremendous engage. meut of 36 hours: . , It was :the. grandest sight 1 titer beheld. The enemy's artillery WJS . so iicry taus, and so sewed, that at one .tune we'were very near losing the day. All the best Frencl.3 k;e ricrals in Spain were present. col: T•rj.)oi, Major and Lieutenants Pwynne and Forsier„ had their horses shot under thew. it supposed that the Frclich never tought better. The horses were :Y_ldled three days, and during that time- had very t. eat nor hsd the officers and men any thing icr the same length of time but bread and water, and glad of that. Our regiment is much . reduced 4y sickness, Seven (slicers are ill, exclusive Of the to minded. *There. are not more than ► i Officers fit fk4 duty. Our horses in general are in a, bad state. lost 60 -in the engagement, and we cannot urns ter wore than ,about - 200 strong. The French are tiot more than tour aides oft; and it is reported that their main body is again advancing." Extraa of a letter ,froth , spother Officer the ErCily , We arrived here yesterday l We do not fear to Lie interrupted in our retreat, having got the, '.aft of the French, who have :joined ‘,vith the corps of Soul:. ''‘''Sre are - now abunAan;iy - 'snap lied with' provisions of all kinds, pat tictaletrly beef, 4nd oilier brtittes 'of ; meat.. Our reirettt from. this place Contnience,•tO-knorro' towards' Elvas, n ha pt.'egnab';e fortress, woure shad rei: am in •afety." • 44, cotar t thr sloes was .11;tde in Madr last Jutie,, Ftene,a 1 . -4-nary; to extetit of 7,(:;09 . lime-, 3i the rtnortuous rate, in Ilritish cur- Is. per Fa:r, " NAVAL N PLYMQVIII, AUG. 24 --Arrived the l';o• GERS, from Cork, laden. with/prOvisions, IGi this port. Sailed the brig Rolla, thnINGALL, from Gibral tar, for the, River; and the ketch Maria, BREwES, from Gibraltar, laden with wine, for Alderney. Arrived the Probity, PICKWORTII, - and Lively, CaocKroab,-from London. • Remain in the Sound, his Majesty's ships Prevoy , ante, Woolivich„ Cossack,"-and Lyra. Ships in Conaniission in triamoaze--.. La Scipion, Milford, Druid, La Rhin', La jalouse, Aficotr, Conflid, Whiting, Adrian, Aspern, Partridge, and Scylla. ISLANDS eF SCILLY, Avc. 21.—Came in the Au rora, WITHERALL, from Cardiff, bound to Malaga with coals ; the Ranter, TRUSTRUM, from Cork, bound to Truro, 'with butter, Ike. Sailed the Rosetta, TREVAWAS, fur the Channel fleet, with sundry articles; and Neptune, MAY, for GERM 11V PdPERS. AMSTERDAM, AVG. :a--Troops from the interior of France as well as from the neighbouring depart ments are marching hither by thousands. The roads , from Pgis to Antwerp swarm with soldiers. It is the same in this country. The troops which were at the Helder will be removed by waggon's to Ber gen-op-Zoom,- and those which were in . the different camps are on their march to Brabant. The regi ments in Germany are also to return. The sluices at Bergen-op-Zoom have been opened. A Royal Decree orders, that the armed Burghers of the capital shall be formed into three regiments of four battalions each, each company will be 150 strong ; Volunteers from these troops are to form a Corps d'Elite, out of which will be seleEted'a ca valry corps. These troops are only to be employed for the defence of the capital. Another degree regulates the organization of the armed Burgher corps of Haarlem, Leyden, the Hague, Rotterdam, Dordrecht, Hertzagenbusch, Breda, Bergen-op• Zoom, Hembergen, stadt, &c. General Count RAMPEN commands the French -1 army assembling at Brugge. The division of Ge neral CHRMUARL . TUC, which is 12,000 strong, has already proceeded thither. General CHARBONWIER is every moment, expeaed with considerable rein forcements. Lieutenant-General TARAYRE has joined the French army with six thousand Dutch troops, part of which are the Royal 'Guards, and forms the right wing. These troops burn with, zeal to measure swords with the enemy. Particular ComManders are appointed at Bergen op-Zoom, Hembergen, and Wilitamstadt ; the pre parations for defence arecondu&ed with the greatest I aCti►ity. ANOTHER LUTTRR, SAME DATE. The French Admiral MISSIESSY has manceuvred in a most able manner. Though he was under the necessity of throwing his heavy cannot over-board, in order to pals some difficult parts of the Scheldt, he has taken a fine pOsition with his squadron oppo site to Litto o and has sailed up the Scheldt twelve miles in presence of the enemy. The King has learned with great satisfaElion that The heretofore General BRUCE, who has been called before a Council of War, is a foreigner/ he being a Scotchman, and no Dutchman born. --Lieut.-Genera) BRUNE, Master of the Horse to the King, is appointed Governor of Breda.- Gen. TARAY RE, who has been reinforced, I?as taken a po sitio❑ betweetr th'e village of PuttCn and Bergen-op- Zoom, and unites with the French army, being his right wing. The flotilla, which advances before the line of the fleet, lately bombarded B•athz for the whole day. Fresh troops arrive daily at Antwerp. About 5000 of the Imperial Guard are every mo- meet expeaed. the addresses of the Rabbis have not been fruit- less; some detachments o . fJews have already arrived at the Hague. They attra& much obiervation.-. A 'number of these Jews have requested the bles- sing of - the Rabbis before their departure. The Ministers of War and Marine have issued a proclamation, calling on the People, in the name of the King, to enter into the navy and the army, for the defence of the country. ANOTHER LETTER, SAME,DATE. It is. difficult to form a judgment respe6ling the ftiture,plan of the enemy. A part of their. force is on the islands Walcheren, Schowen, and South Beveland. It is,said that they have five divisions of sea-and land forces, one of which, on the ,4th and sth, was proceeding to a more northerly destina tion. The're has been fighting before Bergen-op- Zoom, and on the sides of Buyskens, also on, both sides of the Scheldt. The English have addressed a Revenge, Resolution, Eagle, Hero, and Monarch, Proclamation to the People of Antwerp. with prisoners of war, &c.. from Flushing. ANTWERP, AUG. 4.--The Flushing 'fleet has Sailed his Majesty's ships Centaur and Theseus sailed up the Sch..ldt to this city, and lies at\ hor on a crutze off fite3tiins, arlicibeßens off the late ConvdtirOTSF.Bernar , l.--- ' Came down from the River the Acclive, JAWS; The English have already taken Bathz, on the south fot St. Thomas's ; and Brilliant, LanGnLAN, for east end of South Beveland, but that fort will be at- Stu ma. tacked, and has already' been cannonaded by ;the Dutch. FRoivr THE INN., AUG. 3 --How much the Aus trian army has suffered In this camprign, and how Many thousands bf troops they have lost, merely as prisoners, is well known. Nothing therefore can be more exttavagant and erroneous than the accounts in some newspapers of the present strength of the Anitrian army, which is, in reality, very much re duced and weakened. The expectations formed in Austria of the Hungarian . insurrectio' have nut been fulfilled. One aelion seemed to shew how utiskil ful and.aukwarcl these insurreaion troops: were when opposed to the enemy in the field, In all the pro vinces of Austria not yet possessed by the Frencly. the wish is therefore general that a definitive peace should speedily he concluded. The boats of his Majesty's ships Minotaur, Pro metheus, 'and Caroline, have taken at Aspe three. Russian gun‘boati, and an Imperial brig, laden With provisions. A German of some distin6tion was on the eve of departing - from this country,• and intended to take route through fJohand in disguise, in ordei' to escape the vengeance of the Frtrichinen who un fortunately rule with despotic power in the several States through which he was to pass. By some means a Frenchman, who resides a few miles from this me tropolis, having heard of the design, publicly 'an nounced the name of the party, and the exact time when he intended to leave this country, upon Change, a tew days ago. The consequence is, that the, German has been obliged to relinquish his in tention, lest he should be doomed to certain destruc tion on the Continunt. The wife of a journeyman wheelwright, named Hazeitch; an industrious young man, but inlow cir cumstances, was yesterday morning brought to bed of three buys,' all likely to'do well.' She resides op iiusite Upper George-street, Edgware-road. •• • (The following is the Austrian official account of the.battle of Wagram, as published in the Auslian (.3-A•4tttes, dated frnru the head-quarters of the Arch- ia t London. GREENOCK, AuG. 23.—We are authorised by the owners of the Aepttine, S3VETIZ, of this port, re ported in our last to have been captured along with the Pandora, ANDERSON, ,round Cape Horn, - to say, that they have no intelligence of any such event, otherwise than by rumour. The American brig Isabella, NEWCOMB, arrived here erom Philadelphia, spoke, on the sth of August, lat. 46:.5.8. long. 32. the brig l'acc, WALTERS, from London, for,auebec, out thirty-four days, all well ; and, on the 14th, in lat. 51. long. 10. spoke a Dutch built ship, but did 'not learn her name, of and for Liverpool, from Liverpool, in America ; had lost her fore and main-top-masts, and the heads of her fore and' main-masts shattered, offered assist ance, but the Captain said he did not require any. FALMOUTH, AUG. 23:—Sailed this day the Diana packet for Jamaica ; Duke of Kent packet for Lee ward Islands ; Chesterfield packet for America ; Duke of Kent packet for Cadiz ; Princess Elizabeth and Walsingltam packets, for Lisbon ; Prince Adol phus packet for Brazils; and Carteret packet for the Mediterranean. PORTSMOUTH, Arlo. 25.—A - hived his Majesty ' s ship , Narcissus, of 32 guns, from the Westward; George, RICHARD'S, from Waterford ; and the For ney, HILL, from'Dublin. Sailed thii day, - his , Majesty's ships Hardy and Zephyr,. for the Downs; also his Majesty's ships Christian and IVarspite, on , a cruize ; Ross, BROWN, for London 5 rent/Ogling and- .fonge JtiNsENT, for Heligoland; Ann, ArKiNsoN,,tiom Beaven, for Sunderland. Caine into .harbour, his Majesty's ship Derwent, of 18 guns. TORBAY, AUG. 23.—Sailed the Mermaid frigate, with the fleet for Quebec. In furore, all masters of British vessels must pro- duce a certificate, that they have given bond to sail with convoy, as without which certificate from the Officers of the Customs, they will t uot be permitted to have convoy instruCtions. SHEERNESS, AUG, 24, HALF PAST FlVE.—Arriv ed his Majesty's ship Nyaden, INN, from Shetland. Sailed the Constant, with a Convoy for the Coast of Holland. Arrived his Majesty's sloop Calypso, with French prisoners from Flushing. CaMe into harbour, his Majesty's sloop Epervier. AUG. 26.—.-Sailed his Majesty's sioop Gannet, with a large Convoy f.r the Baltic: The Glatton is ordered to be fitted as a guard-ship at the NOre, in the absence of the Kamur, now. on the Expedition. • DEAL,• AUG. 25.—Arrived his Majesty's ships Nuke Charles, July fig. It appears likewise in the HarnburghsCorrespondent of the 11th August, but garbled, the passages marked with inverted commas having been suppreSsed.] JULY 29. —Scarcely had the morning of 'the 6th began to break', when the enemy's army, composed of a force which, Since the earliest times, has per haps never been collected at one point, appeared at the distance of a long cannon-shot. " It was esti mated at from 140 to 150,009 men : according to the latest statements of the Emperor Napoleon him- • self and his Generals, it,consisted of 180,000 com batants. On the part of the Imperial Austrians not quite 100,000 men were in the &Leta:sn thesdaY of battle. The attack began with a brisk cannonade all along the line, which- the enemy answered by At far superior number of heavy ordnance, and kept up . till night without interruption. The right wing of the Austrians made the most splendid progresses. Adlerklaa was taken, and the enemy driven from Russenbru.nn, Breitenlee, and Herschstellen. The enemy's cavalry on the left wing was completely routed," and Field-Marshal Lieutenant Klenau, with the 6th corps, which he commanded in the rooni, of Field-Marshal Lieutenant Hollar,' who was taken ill, penetrated into the enemy's left flank, as far as Esslengen, Aspern, and the town of Enzens doff; made himself masters of our entrenchments which we had abandoned the day before, took ten. pieces of cannon, and some thousand prisoners, be sides one eagle, and several stands of coloura. In the mean time the French centre, where the Napoleon apeleen was, did not Move from the spot at Raschdort ; it was stationed there in several. ranks, consisting ofupWards of sixty thousand men strong, 'and continually lengthened its right wing, opposite the left of the Austrians, till the latter was qdite overwhelmed about noon, by a mass of ca valry, and a great, quantity of artillery. The corps which had been expelled from Marcheck did not • arrive, and-itswas easy for the enemy to outflank our • left' wing . ; -their violent cross 'fire soon silenced out batteries. Our 4th corps, which was placed on our extreme left; was repulsed, and the heights in that quarter occdpied-by the enemy. By this the second corps in the, centre was not only prevented from on ' dertalting the attack against Roscisclorf, b'ut was it•" . self overwhelmed, and forced to retreat to the cause way of Brunn, while the enemy had already gained Piststus and Etizeradorf, was threatening the road to s Wolkersdorf, in the rear of the Imperial Royal army- Night put an end to the adion. ' In the battle nine pieces of cannon were lost ; in., the retreat none, and the ten pieces of cannon taken were carried off. The Archduke John arrived in the afternoon near Sielinbrunn, after the battle was decided, and theP went back again, behind the March. The army continued its retrea t till the gth in the Prague read as. far as Guntersdorf. The rear ha 4 obstinate engagements. daily, during which Kernin burgh and Hollenbrun took fire, and the army was always ready for battle. On the 1 1 th, shortly before sun-set, in the hottest of the adios), when ' both armies were for the roost part drawn up facing on e another', a formal conference took place, after sotrie mutual messages, and at last a temporary armistice, the want of, which was equally felt by hotli armies , after an uninterrupted contlid of upwards of eighr days, and being overcome with fatigue. In copse; : : quence of this an armistice wait concluded on th i 2 weeks,ib' by and o wh i chu: fourteen daysti"e s n notice suspended e to be gl : er ltrbe—trc7r-44'd breaking it, and the Austrian army has taken a re trograde position in Moravia and the adjoini n g trims of Bohemia, to enjoy sortie repose after the heard of trials of the last eight days. - ULM, At./G. read in the Gazette TsTnivW selle the roliuwing article, under the head of Bohe - . tnia :—Toe Corps which was to have been formed in ihesdelghbourhood of Klattau will not take place' The Land sehr (Militia) of this Circle, who now hate been in the environs of Wuldau, have re joined the army-) that part which was near Tieniz , Frauanburg and Heid, and which was to have gon e to Bayreuth, have received counter orders; facsi'l badt will be evacuated ; the artillery and atntriuni'' tion have been sent to Prague in 300 carriages. .1 01- mense redoubts are constructing, without interrol' - sion, in the environs'of this city ; all the peasantry even those of the circle of Pusen, have been put it; requisition for the works, as also the homes. 'inhabitants have received notice to furnish' their selves with six months provisions; the whole Co leded corps of the Austrian army will encamp ° ri the Weissenburg (white mountains), and' it pe ace does not take place, a last battle will, decide the ta t e of the monarchy. • VIENNA, JULY 26.—The Vienna Gazette of or, day mentions the surrender of the citadel of Gratz ° the French troops under Marshal MacdOnald. The Viceroy of Italy left Presburg, with his suite' on the 2d inst. The Government of Lower Austria opened a force" ed loan to pay the contributions levied by i French army. The owners of _houses must con' r i v e bute the 'fourth part of-their house 'rent. All inhabitants are masie to contribute.. The Joan bea:f no interest,. and h is payable uncie,r the guarante e l e ; -t-be States six months after' peacess — sltissffrirt i f c ti c under the head of the Danube, the French boast 1 : 1 00 they have already taken from Austria 8,0 5, s Subjects, and 3775 square leagues of .territory. AUGSBUirGH, AUG. 6.—The march of t r°°F s .t ys through this city still continues ; tar the totir days we have witnessed the arrival of several re 'd merits of chasseurs; cuirassiers, and several honer infantry, and hone grenadiers, and a sietachnle' it o gendarmerie; the whole of these troops proce ed i t i Austria. The harvest commenced in, our Can t some da y s ago, and promises to be most abunclaot• (L'ilbeille. du .Nord, Aug. li.) The brave Sir JOHN OWN, of Clenenney, I °l- suffered much from the Royal cause, during the , bellion against CHARLES was at length tried, and condemned to lose his head. / I ° l ,o heard the sentence wit b much comitOsure, 11 ; _e . a low obeisance to the tribunal, and said, `` men, •I humbly shank you ;" being afterwards f o r what he meant by that, he ans , t ered, ." To d ie be , my King was no more than I expected ; but to or . beheaded for hiM, is an 'honour I did not look td, for. being but a poor Welch Knight,, thought, they would have hanged 'me." ' other gallant traits of the hOnest Cambri a " , o ll i, L etl, reported to pROMWELL, he, to his credit be i ij genet Qtly pardoned hi.tn. 1 ,